Humac

The oldest monastery church in the entire Herceg – Bosnia is in Humac , only ten kilometers away from Medjugorje . In the Franciscan monastery of St. Anthony of Padua in Humac is the oldest museum in Bosnia and Herzegovina , established in 1884. In the renovated museum items are exhibited collected over a wide area of Herzegovina from the Old Stone Age (Paleolithic ) to the present day . The museum also contains Humacka ploca from 1185 , the oldest preserved monument written in the Croatian language . The Franciscan Monastery of St. Anthony of Padua in Humac has a rich collection of about 300 works of art permanently exhibited in a gallery called “Mother”.